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1 = MakeItSo! TODO =
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3 Planned features:
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5 - Have a filepath or URL as the basic thing that gets "filled". (These
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6 should be files, directories, entry_points, or URLs)
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8 - There'd be hooks, so you could define a Python file in the control
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9 config, and have stuff like:
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11 def wrap(filename, rendered_content, vars)
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12 def conflict(filename, prev_content, new_content, vars) # Could do prepend here, for instance
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13 def some_helper_func()
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15 - An option to display this at the end of the run:
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17 makeitso -t my/template/ var1=value var2=value
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19 Then you can easily rerun the command
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21 - ability to specify delimeters (both for file interpolation and
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22 filename interpolation); normally, i'd want '${' + '}', but this
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23 works poor with, say, bash scripts, and not having this makes it
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24 difficult to write templates that make other templates
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25 ``(This is done in tempita; can we use it?)``
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27 - should be able to contain as much information as possible in a
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28 single file. Since most often I want to give someone (possibly
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29 myself) a single file to run, it would be nice to have some local
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30 maximum of the product of flexibility and legibility
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32 - the ability to create a self-executing script from a file for easy
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33 portability
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35 - ability to find the variables used in templates; I find this
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36 absolutely critical. In PasteScript, this isn't there (unless you
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37 use cheetah) and it is problematic if you want to deal with
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38 templates programmatically. If you do allow things, like
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39 single-file templates, then this becomes mandatory. This is to say,
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40 amongst other things, there should be a command-line option that
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41 will list the template variables.
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43 - ability to import templates:
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44 ability to make existing directory structures or files into
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45 templates
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47 - ability to make a python package from a python file
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49 - ability to have a pre-hook and pluggable setup; e.g. setup a repo
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51 - ability to use defaults (--use-defaults) when they are specified
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53 - ability to save variables used in a run into a file:
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55 makeitso --save-variables=myvars.txt mytemplate
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57 - ability to have executing script files (for packaged tests or via a shebang)
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59 - a dotfile for metadata (e.g. ~/.makeitso)
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61 - hooks for things to do after creation (licensing, uploading
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62 somewhere, creating a repository, etc)
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64 - not having to name template files 'foo_tmpl'; it is better not to
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65 munge the file extension at all and have other mechanisms for
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66 denoting files to be interpolated
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68 - ability to use python in interpolation
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70 - backwards compatability with pastescript templates
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72 - a web interface (or a few)
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74 - Like pastescript currently does, the ability to apply templates
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75 sequentially.
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77 Directories:
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79 - a file like makeitso.ini (in that directory) can control stuff
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81 Nice-to-haves:
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83 - ability to munge files (e.g. combining setup.py from several
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84 packages) [HARD]
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86 - ability to push changes from a downstream instance to a template [HARD]
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88 - It would also be nice (but not required) to be able to control how
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89 things get put together. That is, for a setup.py or a README, what
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90 do you do? For the latter, you probably mostly want append. For
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91 the former you want to do various things : e.g. add dependencies,
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92 add entry points, etc. So we should figure out a way to write a
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93 template like that and have each template applied e.g. increment
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94 dependencies. So the latter are like variables.
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96 - ability to output to a POST request to a URL
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98 Tempita:
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100 - Parsing variables out of tempita should be workable. Even if a
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101 couple are missed, you could possibly put some in config.ini and
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102 have the rest detected (so you don't worry about forgetting new variables)